This week, in a special, two-part extended edition of KPTZ Compass, we attend a story-telling session at the 10th Anniversary Picnic Potluck for Local 20/20, a grassroots organization that over the past decade has worked on building sustainability and economic resilience for Port Townsend and beyond from every angle they could think of.

It was almost exactly a year ago that the Compass paid a visit to the last living legitimate resident of the forbidden paradise of Protection Island. This week on the Compass we revisit that adventure.

There was a generous turn-out of neighbors, friends, and future residents, along with community leaders and movers and shakers, for the ground-breaking ceremony on Thursday, July 14, for Quimper Village, a 28-unit, First-in-Washington-State-type of cohousing development for those 55 and older. There were helium balloons, speeches by city planners and the project’s builders, champagne was passed out, and Deputy Mayor Catherine Robinson gave a toast. Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Teresa Verraes personally conducted the photo-op ceremonial ground-breaking with a special gold-painted shovel. The ceremony was the culmination of more than two years of planning, and KPTZ Compass was on hand last December when the project got its go-ahead. This week we reprise that show.

Summer is upon us with warm sunny weather, and the waters of the Olympic shore beckon to boaters of every stripe to come play.  So this week on the Compass we reprise a show produced last year by veteran kayaker and KPTZ DJ Chris Bricker on the subject of kayak safety, which was motivated by the tragic deaths of two kayakers off the Dungeness Spit when the weather suddenly turned bad in April of 2015.

This week on the Compass KPTZ Program Director Larry Stein takes a ride in an open-sided electric stretch limousine, and a comedian and a former mayor give tips on how to cure a fear of public speaking.

This week on the Compass we meet a few of the daring souls who recently set forth on the unforgiving course of the Race to Alaska.

This week on the Compass we accompany a man as he sets out to get himself arrested for world peace, and we talk with departing schools Superintendent David Engle and the principal designer of a prize for high school students who think creatively about sustainability.

This week on the Compass we take you to an encampment of emergency responders as they imagine all hell breaking loose, and we have breakfast with a group of runners who are attempting to unify the Americas in Peace and Dignity by running from Alaska to Panama.

This week on the Compass, we have a coffee-cake breakfast with Muslims in Port Townsend and ask them the tough questions about radical terrorism that you’ve probably always wanted to ask. Some of their answers may surprise you.

We reveal how Key City Public Theater and its Artistic Director, Denise Winter, both may have been teetering on the brink of collapse. Neither is completely out of the woods yet, but all signs point to a happy ending.